Event with Nicholson Baker, joining the conversation by christopher. Thank you for joining us tonight. Harvard bookstore continues to bring authors to our community and new digital community. As always, our events scheduled also appears on our website at harvard. Com events where you can sign up for email news letter. This evenings discussion will conclude with questions and if you have any questions, click on q a bottom. In the chat i will be posting a link to purchase and donate and support series in the store. Your purchases an contributions make tonight possible. Thank you so much for showing up and tuning in support of authors at Harvard Bookstore. We appreciate your support now and always. As you may have experienced in virtual gatherings the last few weeks, months, technical issues may arise. [laughter] if they do, we will do our best to resolve them quickly and we thank you for your patience and understanding. And now im so pleased to introduce tonights speakers, Nicholson Bake
The importance of the relationship between drugs and war of course, i know that the intensity of feelings in china about the century of humiliation that began with opium war t butt the same time its easy for a lot of people, including myself, to think of Something Like the opium ware as may be an anomaly or something very particular to a very particular time and place and i have to say im guilty of thinking about the opium war that way but great scholarship, truly great scholarship, like killer high and a lot of the work done here at the Washington Institute forces us, forces me to see the world in a totally new way this book has forced me and i think it forces all readers to focus on the eternal and incredibly expansive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from war conducted by people who are often on a form of drug and some kind of psychoactive substance and it extends to wars and conquest of drugs or the Raw Materials and extends to wars for markets and for
Humiliation that began about the opium war but at the same time it is easy for a lot of people including myself to think of Something Like the opium war like an anomaly or something very particular to very particular timer and place and i have to stand guilty of thinking about the opium war thatbo way. But great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer hi, a lot of work that is done at the Lawson Institute forces us and me to see the world in a totally new way. This book has forced me and enforces all readers to really focus on the internal and incredibly expansive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from work conducted by people who were often on a form of drug, some kind of psychoactive substance and it extends towards an conquest of drugs or the raw material for drugs and it extends to wars for markets and for outlets of drugs and of course were all familiar with wars against drugs. But as peter argued so effectively, this phenomenon, this interacti
Good evening everyone, welcome and thank you for supporting your local independently owned bookstore. Cspan is filming so please make sure all funds on silent. I do and to let you know about a couple events have coming up this month, tomorrow night haley reading from her and ran his new novel. Tuesday Steven Kinzer is going to present the history of the cia also outside events and tickets are Still Available for mondays conversation and for jonathan his foreign talk on wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary marcus, author of rebooting ai which is a human in jeopardy does not single engine signal we are on the doorstep or super intelligent machines. Taking inspiration from the human mind, the book explains that if we need to advance our social intelligence to the next level, suggestive we are wise along the way we wont need to worry about a machine overload. Finally a book that tells us what ai is, what it is not, and what ai could be, if only we are ambitious and creative enough. He calls
Opium war as an anomaly or something very particular to a very particular time and place. I am saying i am guilty of thinking about the opium war that way. But great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer high in a lot of the work thats done here at the Watson Institute forces me and us to see the world in a totally new way. This book, has forced me, and i think it forces all readers to really focus on the internal and expansive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from war conducted by people who were on a form of drug, some kind of psychoactive substance. It extends to wars and conquest of drugs or the Raw Materials for drugs, extends to wars for markets and for outlets for drugs, and as we are all familiar with wars against drug. But peter argues so effectively this phenomenon, this interaction between psychoactive substances and conflict, is laced throughout history. And right up until the present. Peter makes a number of very interesting conclusi